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Best friends from boyhood, now sophomores at Stanford in Palo Alto, Calif., Kayvon Beykpour and Aaron Wasserman, along with a group of five other friends, have built a free application for the iPhone that has the academic world buzzing. So far, their program, "iStanford," which launched Oct. 1, is pretty straightforward: users can access a campus map and course catalog, e-mail professors and get news and information about sports teams. Nothing wildly innovative about that. (See the top 10 iPhone applications...
...vice president of mobility product development. TerriblyClever won the $10,000 grand prize for AT&T's "Big Mobile on Campus" contest for best smartphone application shortly after it launched, and AT&T has been introducing Beykpour and Wasserman to university information officers around the country. Hill said that iStanford did a great job of implementing all the things students want from a smartphone application; the next step is rolling it out to schools nationwide. "College kids across the country will be demanding this," he said...
Whether or not Steve Jobs himself actually signed off on the ad, the iPhone-toting Stanford student body certainly liked it. More than 11,000 people have downloaded iStanford to date. Beykpour figures that number includes alumni and tour groups, because it's more than twice the number of people who can actually use the app on campus...
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